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This week on The Anime Effect: Rock band Flow shares a message to fans as they celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band, plus the latest news about Dragon Ball Daima and Yu-Gi-Oh! games. Episode 31 of The Anime Effect is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you listen to your podcasts! If you're waiting to watch the video episode, it'll be live on Crunchyroll and YouTube at 7 p.m. Et. Listen or Watch on: Episode 31 Summary In this week's episode, Nick, LeAlec and Leah share their deepest, darkest secrets, but also talk Spy x Family movie news, Dragon Ball Daima updates and Yu-Gi-Oh! game announcements, plus more! Then, Leah and LeAlec interview iconic band Flow, known for their work on opening themes for Naruto and Dragon Ball Z , and discuss tour life, their favorite foods to get outside of Japan and which anime characters they relate to the most.

It's been awhile since J-horror has been at the forefront of the genre, but it still has a lot of fans so when word of the worldwide release of Alter Ego, an "undiscovered" film from 2002 that Takashi Shimizu was involved with, we figured you'd want to hear about it.

From the Press Release:

Eagle One Media is proud to announce it will distribute Takashi Shimizu’s undiscovered Japanese film Alter Ego to worldwide audiences for the first time.

Shimizu, the famed director behind The Grudge and Ju-on horror franchises, was intimately involved as a supervising director on Alter Ego, and the feature film has never before been released outside of Japan. A North American DVD is set for February 18 with the film immediately available on digital platforms iTunes and Amazon Instant.

Produced by King Records, Alter Ego features the involvement of some of the masters of today’s Japanese horror...

We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes DVD release details for Chastity Bites, trailers for Alter Ego and Founders Day, The Walking Dead Hawaii poster, reviews for The Halloween Experience: Volume One, Open Grave, and Still: The Web Series, and much more:

Chastity Bites DVD Release Details: “Grand Entertainment Group (Geg) wants You to celebrate “Women in Horror” month this February with the DVD release of Chastity Bites on February 11. The horror-comedy, which has been slaying festival audiences and has been praised by media, is created by a team of strong and vibrant women including writer/producer Lotti Pharriss Knowles, co-producer Wendi Mirabella and executive producer/lead actress Allison Scagliotti (Syfy’s “Warehouse 13″).

Directed by John V. Knowles (Shadow.Net), the film stars Francia Raisa (ABC Family’s “Secret Life of the American Teenager”); Louise Griffiths...